In a Roman Osteria by Carl Bloch Tissue Paper

Carl Bloch - In a Roman Osteria, 1866. Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834-1890) was a Danish artist. The setting is in the interior of a Roman osteria. In the forefront, there is a table with three customers: a young man is facing two young women. The one on the left of the man wears a headscarf in the typical garb of married Roman women at the time. The man is seen turning toward the onlooker with an angry expression, whereas the woman at his left is looking with a smiling one, and the other woman looks amused in the same direction. The painter is shown sitting in an osteria, at a table talking with his friends. The two figures sitting beside him are depicted, the figure turning his back to the viewers is the painter himself.